#leïla slimani

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[...] the strange way she had of kissing him, sometimes using her teeth, biting him as if to signify the sudden savagery of her love, her desire to completely possess him.

Leïla Slimani, from 'Lullaby', tr. Sam Taylor

[words-and-coffee]

Solitude was like a drug that she wasn’t sure she wanted to do without.

Leïla Slimani, Lullaby (Translated by Sam Taylor)

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Books Read in 2023: Lullaby by Leïla Slimani

"We will, all of us, only be happy, she thinks, when we dont need one another anymore. When we can live a life of our own, a life that belongs to us, that has nothing to do with anyone else. When we are free."

[fiction-quotes]

She had been in one of those sleeps so heavy that they leave you feeling sad, disorientated, your stomach full of tears. A sleep so deep, so dark, that you see yourself dying, that you wake up soaked with cold sweat, paradoxically exhausted.

  —  The Perfect Nanny (Leïla Slimani)

[prosedumonde]

Elle se sent prête parfois à revendiquer sa portion de terre puis l’élan retombe, le chagrin la saisit et elle a honte même d’avoir cru à quelque chose.

Leïla Slimani, Chanson douce

[motifcollector]

He trusts her. It’s as simple and as brutal as that.

Leïla Slimani, Adèle

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MBTI & Writers

Leïla Slimani: INFJ

“Leïla Slimani (born 3 October 1981) is a Franco-Moroccan writer and journalist. 

She is also a French diplomat in her capacity as the personal representative of the French president Emmanuel Macron to the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie. 

In 2016 she was awarded the Prix Goncourt for her novel Chanson douce. (…)

Chanson douce (lit. "sweet song") is the story of a double murder of two young siblings by their nanny, inspired by the killing by a nanny of the Krim children in Manhattan in 2012. 

The novel starts off with the immediate aftermath of the murder, and then recounts the backstory of the parents, a liberal, upper middle class Parisian couple, as well as their nanny, who is economically and psychologically struggling.”

Sources: video, wiki. Screencaps: transcript.

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AUTHOR FEATURE:

﹒Leïla Slimani﹒

Four Books Written By this Author:

The Perfect Nanny

Adèle

In the Country of Others

Sex & Lies 

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Happy Reading!

[intellectures]

Ein Haus in Flammen

Paul Murrays Familien-Epos erzählt von einer Familie, die unter dem Druck der zahlreichen Krisen und der Vergangenheit in sich zusammenfällt. »Der Stich der Biene« stand im vergangenen Jahr auf der Shortlist des Booker Prize und gehört zu den mitreißendsten Lektüren des Frühjahrs. Continue reading Ein Haus in Flammen

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[derangedrhythms]

Solitude was like a drug that she wasn’t sure she wanted to do without.

Leïla Slimani, from 'Lullaby', tr. Sam Taylor

[words-and-coffee]

Hate rises up inside her. A hate that clashes with her servile urges, her childlike optimism. A hate that muddies everything. She is absorbed by a sad, confused dream. Haunted by the feeling that she has seen too much, heard too much of other people’s privacy, a privacy she has never enjoyed herself. She has never had her own bedroom.

Leïla Slimani, Lullaby (Translated by Sam Taylor)

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Perfect Nanny (15): Une Autre Main, Un Autre Berceau!

#onemannsmovies review of "Perfect Nanny" (2019). The creeping horror of a malignant child-carer. Best avoided by parents of tots. 3.5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Perfect Nanny” (2019). Original French Title: Chanson Douce. Alternative Title (UK only?): Lullaby. There have been numerous films about parents hiring Nanny’s who don’t quite come up to OFSTED’s child-protection safeguarding standards. The most famous is probably “The Hand That Rocks The Cradle” from 1992 starring Rebecca de Mornay. What makes “Perfect Nanny” so…

[fiction-quotes]

There are mothers too, mothers staring into space. Like the one who gave birth recently and now finds herself confined to the world's edge; who, sitting on this bench, feels the weight of her still flabby belly. She carries her body of pain and secretions, her body that smells of sour milk and blood. This flesh that she drags around with her, which she gives no care or rest. There are smiling, radiant mothers, whose extremely rare mothers, gazed at lovingly by all the children. The ones who did not say goodbye this morning, who didn't leave them in the arms of another. The ones set free by a day off work, who have come here to enjoy it, bringing a strange enthusiasm to this ordinary winter's day at the park.

  —  The Perfect Nanny (Leïla Slimani)

[justascribbla]

"Writing is a way of playing with silence. Literature is made up of an erotica of silence."

Leïla Slimani, The Scent of Flowers at Night

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Ivanka odporúča na Vianoce tieto grafické romány

Ivanka odporúča na Vianoce tieto grafické romány

História komiksov má korene v ďalekej minulosti. Veď už naši pradávni predkovia zaznamenávali svoje príbehy kresbami na steny v jaskyniach, na krčahy, reliéfy, kamene, papyrusy, okná stredovekých katedrál atď. Grafické romány sú síce verbálne striedme, ale musia byť literárne i výtvarne starostlivo premyslené. Tento rok som mala možnosť prečítať niekoľko vynikajúcich komiksov a ponúkam vám svoje…